Indigenous Peoples
The Native American Tribe that is the focus of our Thanksgiving lesson.
What is the Wampanoag Tribe?
The title given to European settlers in the traditional Thanksgiving story.
What is a Pilgrim?
The first Thanksgiving was a peaceful meal between Pilgrims and Native Americans to celebrate their thanks for one another.
What is fiction? This is a popular, idealized version of the story. Records indicate that there may have been a shared meal, but it was not a peaceful or celebratory time.
The most common way to serve potatoes at Thanksgiving dinner.
What is mashed?
The animal that serves as the universal symbol of Thanksgiving.
What is a turkey?
The name of a Native American man who was a former British/Spanish slave and was able to translate between the Wampanoags and Pilgrims.
What is Squanto?
The ship in which the Pilgrims arrived in North America.
What is the Mayflower?
The Wampanoags taught the Pilgrims how to grow corn.
What is a fact? Even after being fought and losing many of their people to European diseases, the Wampanoags taught the Pilgrims how to grow and harvest Maize.
A type of side dish that is often cooked inside of a turkey.
What is stuffing?
A word to describe you give and/or share with others on this day.
What is what you are thankful for? (or) What is thanks?
The number of villages within the Wampanoag nation in the 1600s.
What is 69 villages?
The year in which the Mayflower arrived.
What is 1620?
A turkey was eaten during the first Thanksgiving.
What is fiction? They most likely ate wild boar and/or pheasants.
An orange root vegetable that is often served baked with marshmallows on top.
What is a yam.
A popular American cartoon that families often re-watch during the Holiday season.
What is Charlie Brown?
The present day area in which the Wampanoag tribe lived.
What is Cape Cod?
The famous structure the Mayflower landed at.
What is Plymouth Rock?
All of the Pilgrims were peaceful and kind to the Wampanoag tribe.
What is fiction? Not all Pilgrims were peaceful or kind. In fact, many Native American's were killed by European weapons and diseases the settlers brought with them to their new home.
A red berry that is used to make a common Thanksgiving sauce.
What is a cranberry.
The point of Thanksgiving dinner today.
What is spending time with loved ones, family, & friends?
A major part of the Wampanoag's way of life, that is still somewhat celebrated on this day.
What is giving thanks to nature and others?
A disease that the European settlers brought with them to North America.
What is smallpox?
The Pilgrims arrived with plenty of resources.
What is fiction? In fact, many Pilgrims died of starvation due to them not knowing how to farm the land and arriving too late to plant crops.
Thanksgiving's signature dessert?
What is pumpkin pie?
A retailer that sponsors the famed Thanksgiving Day parade that started in 1924.
What is Macy's?